Letter to George Washington Taylor, 1854-10-20

              35 Broad Street Buildings, London, Oct. 20 1854. My Dear Friend, Many thanks for your very interesting and welcome letter, which reached me by the last steamer. I am truly glad that the way opens so favourably for our magazine; that we may commence under such favorable circumstances; with such a large circle of readers to begin with. I hope and believe we shall not only be able to keep the subscribers to the Non-Slaveholder, but to gain double the number. I will do my best to this end. I am glad you approve the Prospectus I proposed. It describes a large range of topics, all of which I am sure you sympathise with. I'm equally confident that the readers of the Non-Slaveholder will not regret the introduction of a greater variety of benevolent ideas + principles. I feel anxious that some impartial voice shall be heard in these times of prejudice and passion, to speak in a mild dignity and truthfulness of all the great actions of nations, to speak, for instance, in a mild dispassionate tone of truth and firmess of such a topic of this Eastern Question and of the Free Man, to speak as a true disinterested citizen of the World, without any leaning to national prejudice which should bias his conclusions, to speak from the stand-point of human brotherhood, in a word. I think, I am sure you are one with me on these points and principles, and that you will sympathise with the sentiments I put forth. I intend to throw as much power into my leaders as I can muster, and hope to produce many which shall find their way into the public journals. For this purpose, if you are willing, I should be glad to have a pretty large number of copies sent to different newspapers regularly, say 50 or even 100 monthly, if you think we could afford